We have released Modularity 2. It has many incompatible changes. See below for a script to migrate your applications automatically...
When you do something like this in your code: def var_value @var ||= some_expensive_calculation end
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tl;dr: Using has_many associations with a :through option can lead to lost or duplicate records. You should avoid...
Setting the colorbox opacity by hash parameter when initializing doesn't work the way like the documentation tells you.
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In Ruby, classes and modules are called constants. This card explains how Ruby resolves the meaning of a constant.
Goal Within before_* Within after_* Cancel later callbacks throw :abort throw :abort Rollback the transaction throw :abort raise ActiveRecord::Rollback...
If you're still working on ruby 1.8, you should know that using SimpleDelegator is often prohibitively slow. I have...
This error occurs when you already have a database.yml which defines the database for the cucumber environment instead of test...
Say you have a User with a Carrierwave attribute #avatar: class User < ActiveRecord::Base mount_uploader :avatar, AvatarUploader end
When you want to find out the data type of an attribute, you can just use ActiveRecord's columns_hash...
The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date & time input picker. Does not depend on jQuery UI, but currently does...
Usually our mysql queries are not case sensitive. In order to query case sensitive, you can use the mysql COLLATE...
Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck. Check the attached link for an icon list for the...
Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say: change_column :table_name...
I recently experienced the error ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql2::Error: closed MySQL connection. Apparently this happens when there is a timeout...
There may be reasons to change the locale of your Postgres cluster. A popular one is your development system's...
So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...